Crepeys/Hagsnet - the moonlight beckons!

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Because moonlight gives you a nice glow and doesn't show up your wrinkles or grey hair.

£10 for 40 mins! I'm moving!!
Ds loves his piano teacher - dp says it is a mutual love in when they get together so she only has to acted disappointed in his lack of practises and that spurs him on! He has picked the hardest piece for his exam - typical!

A bit like perfectionists who put in zero effort... I'm a pedant that can't necessarily spell/do grammar. Which is another reason to embrace the 'play' not 'practise' notion. (I would have put practice)

I must lavish DD1 with praise forthwith. She is really good about playing her guitar. Not for very long but by jingo she gets on with it. Wasn't always thus. Early days were some of our worst moments. I went batshit loco harpie hell bitch a couple of times.

My experience of the whole music practice thingy with dd was the opposite, Dukes. For the first 2 or 3 years, she used to play all the time. She loved it and just played happily every day. Then she had to change teachers because she changed school and she was encouraged to do the grade exams. I wasn't happy about this because I suspected that this would be the death knell for her enjoyment. It was. We struggled on for another couple of years up to Grade 4, but now she hates the whole trad music learning thing with a passion. She wants to switch to learning jazz piano, but I have said she needs to take a breather because I fear that the "no, I won't do my practice" attitude is so engrained that she has forgotten how to enjoy it at all.

BTW, further up thread when I said about the "spelling practice" title on dd's homework sheet being misspelt - the sheet that came home said "spelling practise". I would say that as -ice is the noun and -ise is the verb, it should have read "spelling practice". We practise our spellings, but do our spelling practice. Sorry, was just overcome by pedantry there. Happens to me all the time. But I know I make plenty of mistakes too, particularly as I have German comma issues and have recently fallen prey to a lot of AE/BE spelling confusion.

At the moment Ds isn't bothered by the exams (hasn't done one yet - getting ready for grade 1) so we will see...

Stropps - I mentioned the practise/practice thing because your post brought it into my head! I always say to ds a good way to remember it is 'ice' is a thing (Vet Practice). I just hate the fact I work with a bunch of academics who have rolled over and just use practice regardless (which is what the Americans do...)

How's the dog training coming along? After last night the only think BlackduckDoggy will be doing is playing 'dead' dog (I joke everyone before you call the RSPCA on me...... :) )

Snort at Trip's batshit loco harpie hell bitch. I have a similar meltdown scheduled for this Friday when I will realise I haven't had time to sort myself out for my trip to Edinburgh this weekend (sans children, yay) due to ridiculous amount of work/child ferrying/school info evenings this week. I believe the exact moment of lift off will be when dh asks where the children's packed bag is as he is taking them to his folks for the weekend as his dad has got him free tickets to the NEC bike show. I am NOT DOING THE PACKING FOR THEM, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not.

Wilbur, and repeat......
Say sweetly 'Packed bags? I don't know where the PACKED bags are. The unpacked ones are under the beds/moldering in the gloryhole/full of unwashed dirty swimming kit/left at school '
Dp once forgot to pick up ds''s packed bag (weekend away) and we had to cloth him from odd castoffs from the Oxfam shop.....

clothe...fgs!! Time to go home methinks......(it is beautiful here, I want to be by the seaside and not stuck in my 11th floor office....)

Ice' is the noun/thing. 'Ise' is the verb. I geddit! So izzit that a councillor does counselling? or does our crazy old, lovely old language not extend that far in terms of consistancy (consistency? ).

Wilbur: "I have a similar meltdown scheduled for this Friday" I was going to commend you for your forward planning. Then I realised how utterly inevitable that meltdown is

Just rang DH from Maplins.
ME: 'Do we need a new 10 quid mic for the karoake machine for DD2's 7th birthday disco party on Sun seeing as how I'm actually in Maplins, right now?'
DH: 'No...maybe. No. Not 'til I've pulled (more) apart the three completely broken ones and pronounced them Completely Broken.

DD1 threw a wobbler at me. 'Why didn't you just get a new one? We (me and dd2) have tested them and they DON'T WORK!!!!' She was furious. I tried to explain the concept of compromise like it wasa good thing.

But really I should just have bought a freaking new one.

And "engrained" should be "ingrained"... see don't take any advice from me I dunno wot I is doing.

I feel I have had my quota of meltdowns for this week, in fact I may even have used up some of next week's quota. So I have delegated the taking of ds to the piano lesson to dh, so overseeing the practice will be his job for the rest of the week. dd made chicken curry in food tech today, so that is supper sorted. Apparently the teacher only gave her a B because she refused to make it properly spicy because she knew we wouldn't eat it if it was properly hot. Well, that's dd's story anyway.

Dukes, you should have got a new microphone

Not made much progress with the dog training, BD - we ran out of sausage. Has Blackduckdoggy been misbehaving.

? (ahem)

Your DD brings her cookery home? I haven't seen anything that DD has made yet - she snarfs it all down at school

Strops, German comma issue?

Do you find that, you also the verb to the end of the sentence send?

Tilly, yup she brings it all home and we HAVE to eat it. Mind you, the teacher asks them how many they want to cook for so they can bring in the right quantities. Suits me fine - especially when she is doing stuff like macaroni cheese etc. Am quite enjoying food tech and I just know that I will not enjoy "resistant materials" which is next half term's tech.

MrsS - you're not far wrong . I told ds off today for "making long ears". dh is much worse for the German comma issue than I am. It is probably a bit sad that our marriage is littered with arguments about commas.

ps: the chicken curry was lovely.

Blackduckdoggy was a fidget arse last night, I could hear him huffing and puffing, and then barking at the milkman at 3 in the morning... Was doing my head in, and I was stressing about work which didn't help. He has just snaffled salmon and pasta as made too much so is a contented dog.
Piano playing done here too, but ds messed up spelling test (couldn't remember which group he was in).

I still haven't done cleaning rota, but did get ds to put his clean clothes away and tidy the Lego off his floor. Next meltdown due in this house will be swimming tomorrow :) god it's so predictable you wonder why you bother!

We have had a mini-meltdown from DD when DH said no TV tonight as she was rude to him (has been gruesome the last few weeks, so cracking down), but I am dreading a mahooosive one tomorrow morning as she has not finished her homework, but is lying in bed, in the dark with her school uniform on and when I went in to speak calmly to her, she started ranting so I left again.

Dreading it.

Oh dear, Tilly. That does sound like one brewing. But then again it's yr dd's choice... We have had to undergo a fair few situations where dd has made some or other duff choice and had to take the consequences and there has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth. The cheese gets very tough around here.

BD, there must be something in the air. Maybe it is the unseasonably warm weather. StroppyDog is currently even more unhinged than usual. This means a lot of noise and molestation of wildlife. He feels that he has been under-exercised today (2 walks already) and is currently barking in the garden in the dark, waiting for me to emerge with his illuminated ball. (My mother gave it to him for Christmas. Make of that what you will...)

We have had screaming full on meltdown today from DD1 who had to be physically removed from her bed and taken into the bathroom this morning. She is a) tall and b) hefty, so this was no mean feat. She has been utterly foul all day (her teacher has spoken to her about her attitude as well) and we have just had major screaming and shouting about her homework.

I find boarding school very appealling on days like this.

I have a nice big shed at the bottom of my garden and a proven track record in dealing with shouty, arsey 13-year-old-girls. I can run a half-term boot camp!

I'll sign her up, please!

I was hoping that they got over the 'lying in the dark fully clothed refusing to move' routine as they got older....clearly not :)
Ds is currently scared of his teacher so wouldn't dare not do his homework (whether it was the right homework we have yet to find out (see up thread)

I am v pleased at (a) the pedantry on this thread (b) working in an office where there is a very lovely folder called 'SUBS' FOLDER'. (Well, it would be a bit off if it was wrong, innit.)

There appear to be many leggings in my office, although often worn by Young Things. I have taken to wearing them with my Jigsaw frock.

Wilbur, inform them NOW they are going to do their own packing - or have you told them already, repeatedly, to be met with Deaf Ears?

The Inferiorettes insist on doing their own packing. This does mean DD2 tends to prioritise Bears over Pants, but, you know, each to their own.

Sounds like ds, left to his own devices his case would contain cuddles, blanket and the complete set of horrible histories.... Socks, who needs tem?